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(Compare features with those in SpiraPlan or SpiraTeam)
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SpiraTest®
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General Features
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Free upgrades and support for 1 year from date of purchase
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Unlimited requirements, releases, test cases and incidents
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Support mobile devices including iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
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Support for SQL Server 2005 or newer
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Clean and powerful user interface
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Built-in screenshot capture capability
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Full Unicode Extended Character Support
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Support for Multiple Languages. Language Files Available for English, French, German, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Chinese and Finnish.
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WYSIWYG Rich Text Editing
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Web Services SOAP and REST APIs to enable integration with other tools/applications
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Data import wizard that allows easy migration of existing data from MS-Excel and MS-Word.
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Project import wizard that allows easy migration of existing data from HP Mercury QualityCenter (formerly TestDirector)
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Requirements Management
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Create, edit and delete requirements in a hierarchical 'scope matrix' organization
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Assign importance levels to requirements based on business priority
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Assign owners and track requirement completion status
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Map requirements to test cases to validate that the functionality works as expected
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View the pass/fail status of the tests that cover each requirement
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Ability to filter the list of requirements by any of the built-in or custom fields/properties.
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Move and copy functionality - This allows you to easily move/copy a
requirement or set of requirements in the requirements matrix.
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Ability to attach documents and other files to requirements.
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Ability to define custom requirements fields/properties, both free-text and list-based.
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Audit log of all changes made to requirements in the system. Ability to rollback to prior versions.
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Ability to link requirements to each other as well as to other artifacts.
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Data import wizard that allows easy import of Requirements and Use Cases from IBM Rational
Requisite Pro software.
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Test Management
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Create and manage project test cases that are stored in a hierarchical folder structure
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Create and manage test sets of test cases that allow you to group test cases from different folders
and assign them to testers for execution as a package.
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Add, edit, reorder and delete individual test steps that define the steps that
need to be followed to test the system
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Specify the expected result and suggested sample data for each test step in the system
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Execute groups of test cases using the easy-to-use test execution wizard
that allows you to mark each step as pass/fail and optionally record a bug
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Ability to pause an incomplete test run and continue running it at a later date.
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Complete traceability from a recorded incident to the underlying
requirement that was not satisfied
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Ability to filter the list of test cases by any of the built-in or custom fields/properties.
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Move and copy functionality - This allows you to easily move/copy a
test case or test folder containing test cases in the test case list.
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Template Test Cases - you can insert an existing test case as a linked test step
inside another test case.
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Manage and schedule both manual and automated test cases.
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Integration with various unit testing frameworks (NUnit, JUnit, TestNG, PyUnit, Ruby::Unit, Perl TAP, PHPUnit).
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Integration with automated functional testing tools such as Rapise, QuickTest Pro, Squish, TestComplete, Selenium and SmarteScript
using RemoteLaunch add-on.
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Ability to attach documents and other files to test cases.
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Ability to define custom test case fields/properties, both free-text and list-based.
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Audit log of all changes made to test cases in the system. Ability to rollback to prior versions.
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Bug/Defect/Issue Management
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Create, edit, assign, track, manage and close incidents (defects)
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Automatically create new incidents (defects) during the execution of test scripts,
with the ability to trace incidents to the failing test.
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Incidents can be categorized into
bugs, enhancements, issues, training items, limitations, change requests, and risks
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Assign an owner, business priority and completion status to each incident
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Incident fields can be customized to fit your business needs.
Add and/or modify the list of statuses, priorities, defect types and severities.
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Fully customizable workflows - You can tailor an incident's lifecycle to match
the business processes in your organization by incident type and/or project.
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Email notifications - You can specify when notifications should be sent and to whom.
Each workflow allows its transitions to be linked to email notification by role.
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Comprehensive searching and sorting of all incidents stored in the system, by name, type,
status, owner, detector, creation date, closed date and business priority.
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Ability to attach documents and other files to incidents.
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Ability to define custom incident fields/properties, both free-text and list-based.
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Ability to filter and/or sort the list of incidents by any of the built-in or custom fields/properties.
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Audit log of all changes made to incidents in the system. Ability to rollback to prior versions.
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Ability to link incidents to each other as well as to other artifacts.
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Ability to export incidents from SpiraTest® into the popular JIRA® issue tracking system,
and have status changes made in JIRA® be reflected back in SpiraTest®.
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Ability to export incidents from SpiraTest® into the popular Bugzilla issue tracking system,
and have status changes made in Bugzilla be reflected back in SpiraTest®.
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Ability to export incidents from SpiraTest® into the Microsoft® Team Foundation Server® issue tracking system,
and have status changes made in Team Foundation Server be reflected back in SpiraTest®.
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Ability to report bugs and issues through email and add comments to existing items by replying by email to the
system generation notifications.
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Release Management
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Ability to manage the list of releases/versions of the software being tested
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Requirements and Test Cases can be mapped to Releases, with the option of filtering both by Release to give
a release-specific picture of a project's requirements coverage and test execution status.
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Organize releases hierarchically, with unlimited levels of granularity
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Test Runs and Incidents are associated with a particular release during the test execution process
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The resolution of an Incident and its subsequent verification can be tracked to a specific release during the Incident resolution cycle.
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Drill down capability to list the incidents detected, resolved and verified for each release
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Ability to filter the list of releases by any of the built-in or custom fields/properties.
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Move and copy functionality - This allows you to easily move/copy a
release or set of releases in the releases list.
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Ability to attach documents and other files to releases.
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Ability to define custom release fields/properties, both free-text and list-based.
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Audit log of all changes made to releases in the system. Ability to rollback to prior versions.
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Document Management and Collaboration
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Ability to upload documents and web links to a central knowledge sharing repository.
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Customizable document categorization with support for folders, document types and linked meta-tags.
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Version control of documents and web links uploaded into the system, providing an audit trail of document revisions.
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Document management fully integrated into project requirements, test cases, releases, incidents and tasks, with
all assets uploaded in other parts of the system being available in the central knowledge repository.
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Ability to search, sort and filter the documents in the repository, with meta-tags providing
references to related documents and resources.
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Build Management
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Ability to integrate with continuous integration build servers and display build status.
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Ability to associate test runs with specific builds.
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Link bugs and defects to the specific build they were fixed in.
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Dashboards and Reporting
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Personalized dashboard summary of everything a user needs to know, across all projects, covering
requirements, tests and incidents.
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Project summary dashboard that displays the health of a project in a single screen, with
summary graphs to highlight key information
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Customizable dashboards that can be configured by the users of the system to be responsive to their needs.
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Summary listing of project issues and risks, color-coded by importance
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Summary graphs that outline requirements coverage and test execution status
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Library of graphical graphs including incident discovery/closure rates, cumulative incident counts, incident aging and incident turnaround times
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Library of printable testing reports including: Requirements Coverage, Test Case Execution, Printable Test Scripts and Incident Status reports
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Ability to customize the reports to include different types of information
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Ability to filter the reports by date ranges
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Ability to filter the reports by artifact parameters (e.g. display only high-priority, completed requirements)
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Multi-format reporting, including HTML or MS-Word narrative style and HTML or MS-Excel tabular style.
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Summary tables that breakdown the project's requirements and incidents
by status and business importance.
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Custom report writer that lets you build custom reports with user-defined headers, footers and templates.
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Custom reporting engine that lets you define custom queries against the reportable entities in the system
and generate custom templates that lets you refine how the data is presented.
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Project Management
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Create and edit project workspaces, each with associated requirements, tests and incidents
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Support for unlimited number of projects
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Role-based, configurable access control
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Unlimited number of customizable project roles
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Create new projects based on existing project templates.
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Easy to use web-based project administration screens
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Administration and User Management
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Create and edit user profiles, each with their own set of access permissions
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Import users from existing LDAP / ActiveDirectory server, with integrated authentication. Reuse existing passwords
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Email notification for new account creation, lost passwords and account requests
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Secure forms-based web authentication that optionally allows users to save credentials on trusted machines
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Easy to use web-based system administration screens
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Easy install (server side only) using Windows Installer and minimal ongoing maintenance needed
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